I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

What year did Jesus think it was?

I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.